Health insurance for minors, regardless of affiliation or nationality

The foundation also warned that health authorities cannot suspend or stop treatments or procedures that have already begun, “because such a procedure involves a violation of the fundamental right to health.”

The Constitutional Court assured health authorities that they must provide comprehensive and specialized services to migrant children and adolescents, even if they are not affiliated with the social security system.

The Supreme Court noted that “the state is obligated to provide health services to minors and must guarantee them comprehensive, adequate and specialized treatment, including immigrant children and adolescents, even though they are not affiliated with the social security system.”

The foundation also warned that health authorities cannot suspend or stop treatments or procedures that have already begun, “because such a procedure involves a violation of the fundamental right to health.”

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The Supreme Court explained that “providing service in conditions of continuity means avoiding suspension or delay, as well as unjustified interruptions to treatment. It also means causing the least possible trauma in the development of patient treatments.”

The appeal was made by the court when examining a guardianship submitted by a mother in favor of her son, after the Julio Méndez Barincia Hospital refused to perform a second operation on the minor because they were not affiliated with the health system, as they were. Venezuelan citizens are on their way to regularize their status in the country.